Improved stair-rod holder



PATENT OFFICE.'

EDWARD C. VILSON, OF PEEKSKILL, NEV YORK.

lMPRovE'D sTAlR-Ron HOLDER.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,345, dated May 20, 1862.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD C. WILSON, of Peekskill, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine for Holding Carpet Stair-Rods; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which` Figure l represents a front view containing a representation of the stairs A A and of the rod d, resting in the holders YJ b, as they appear to the eye.v Fig. 2 represents a transverse section of the stairs A A, of the holder b, and ofthe rod d,

My holder is a clasping-spring, the back of which, c, is fastened at the top to the perpendicularpart of the stairs by a screw, and the bottom of which is fastened to the horizontal part of the step by a small point, a, which is cut out of the holder and turned down, so as to stick into the wood of the step, and thus tack the holder firmly thereto. The spring b turns upward with a curve, as represented in the drawings, and is open at the top, and through-this opening thestair-rod cl is pushed down from above into its proper place, as represented, and is taken out through the same opening by being pushed upward. The spring b yields lso as to admit the rod d into the clasp, and when thus admitted holds it rmly, yet

yieldingly, so' as to enable the rod to hold the carpet and oil-cloth firmly and smoothly on the stairs. The spring yields `in the same way in giving up the rod to be removed. The rod is not pushed in sidewise from the edge of the stairs, as is required in other stair-rod holders, thus requiring a space on the side of the stairs equal to the length of the rod, but is pressed into its place from above and in front of the steps, and is as easily used and applied to angles of stairs and to spiral stairs as to straight ones. lhe action of my springholders is so easy and simple that any child can put the rods down, and the time consumed is scarcely one-tenth as much as is required in other rod-holders. They are as easily removed as put down. The strain made Aupon the rod by the carpet or oil-cloth is relieved by the yielding action of the spring in the holders, and the holders are so constructed and fitted to the stairs as to leave ample space for the carpet or oil-cloth to pass under the rods.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' The application of the clasping-spring b, with the back c and point a, all arranged as a stair-rod holder, substantially as described.

EDWARD C. VILSON. lVitnesses:

G. W. JONES, WAsHN. R. NICHOLS. 

